Frequenty Asked Questions

How can I support the Linux-Hardware-Guide?

Our Linux-Hardware-Guide can only be useful for the Linux community, if many people contribute. Contribution can be of many forms:

Article Contributors: The key of this web page is the underlying hardware database. If you have hardware, which is not already part of the database, or think an existing description should be updated, please add the information to our database.

Translators: Not every Linux user and especially Linux beginners often don’t speaks English fluently. In fact, most of our readers use the translated web pages. Translation of the web page and of the article descriptions is lots of work and support is welcome.

Moderator: If you have good Linux knowledge, help us moderate and answer the request of our readers.

I found an error or would like to suggest a feature. What to do?

You found an error in one of our scripts, in our translations, in our hardware description, or you want to suggest an additional feature for our web pages? Tell us in the comment section of this web page or inform us by some other means. We are always very interested to make these pages even better.

I am a hardware supplier. Can I have my products listed on this web page?

If you have a stable API to a database with your products and product prices, please contact us to discuss how this information can be integrated into our web page.

I am a hardware manufacturer. How can I have my products tested for its Linux compatibility?

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If you have lots of separate pages to be scanned a dedicated document scanner like the Epson WorkForce Pro GT-S50 or a similar model could be an option. They allow you to scan the pages in batches.

If you prefer an All-In-One device I would always recommend a HP device (look at All-in-one Printer category). The HP devices are very well supported by the Linux hplip driver, which is often already included in Linux distributions since it is an Open Source driver. You can decide which features you want (WiFi, Laser, InkJet, Duplex printing, A3 printing, …) and can rest assured that the device will work flawlessy if listed on the hplip driver page. With tools like simplescan you can easily scan sets of pages and have them converted into a PDF file. However, you have to manually exchange the pages after each scan, since these are not document scanners.
If you want to tune the scanner setting (contrast, brightness etc.) you can scan with Xsane, which is also supported with the hplip driver.